Liam Lawson hands Racing Bulls major target despite breakthrough result

Liam Lawson has instructed his Racing Bulls team that it must continue to deliver strong weekends after his breakthrough Austrian GP. 

Lawson qualified and finished sixth at the Red Bull Ring - and was the only Red Bull-affiliated driver to score points at the circuit it owns. 

The result was the best of Lawson's F1 career, eclipsing the eighth place he took earlier this year in Monaco and marked a breakthrough for the New Zealand racer following his tough spell at Red Bull and being overshadowed by Isack Hadjar since they became team-mates. 

Despite the strong result, Lawson is adamant that the team simply must continue to deliver weekends like Austria after "average" races since his return to the team. 

"In Formula 1, you only get 24 hours to take a good weekend in, let's say, and then we are straight back to racing," Lawson told media, including RacingNews365. 

"It was great, but at the end of the day, we need more of them, and that is the focus going into this weekend. 

"It was a really good result, but it is almost not what we expected, but it is what we are pushing for. 

"To celebrate one good weekend after seven or eight average weekends is not [good], we need to have more good weekends.

"We are making sure we are ready [for Silverstone] and working with the engineers, analysing last week and trying to take in what we can.

"Obviously, it is a different track, but taking things that we learned, and there is some stuff on the car that I felt very comfortable with last week that we will take for this week."